Synopsis

Tonight’s competition features four distinguished individuals: Bernard Howell, a civil servant, who has prepared a study of the life and music of Frederick Delius; James Palmer, a retired university lecturer, whose work examines the history of British aviation from 1909 to 1960; Elizabeth Mailer, a university librarian, presenting an account of the women’s suffrage movement in Britain between 1867 and 1918; and Frank Rogers, a teacher, who has focused on 19th-century Irish history. The programme